The DCI Deputy Director Mr. Ireri Kamwende has presided over the official opening of a Basic Fingerprint Technology Course at the DCI Academy.
The high-level training brings together participants from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations and Kenya Defence Forces and is tailored towards enhancing the participants’ capacity to investigate cases involving fingerprint identification.
Mr. Kamwende, who was representing the Director DCI, urged the course participants to utilize the opportunity and enhancing their investigative knowledge, while emphasizing that fingerprint identification is one of the most fundamental skills in identification of suspects and linking them to a crime scene.
He further urged them to pass on the knowledge they will have acquired to their counterparts in their respective postings, to improve service delivery to the people we serve.
On her part, the Commandant DCI Academy, Ms Gatiria Mboroki welcomed our counterparts from Kenya Defense Forces to the institution, and called upon the participants to take full advantage of the course.
Also present was a representative from KDF, Col J. S. Hirbo, who stressed on the need for the training, while adding that fingerprint biometrics was a crucial science in identification of persons. He also called for more collaboration between the two security agencies in capacity building for better service delivery.
